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12-01-2007, 12:47 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Kamloops, B.C.
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|  Aiptasia Ever Good?
Anyone ever keep them alive for a prolonged period? as a desirable animal?
Im sure there are some species that don't replicate as rapidly or are prettier. Any ideas? | 
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12-01-2007, 01:03 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Dakota Age: 31
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I would say if you don't mind the sight of them and NOT doing a reef tank -- then they really don't hurt anything. They are just a nuisance that can sting nearby corals. Other than that -- I don't believe them to be that big of a deal.
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90 gallon with 26 gallon sump/refugium, 2 x 250 MH lighting, 100lbs live rock, 1 - yellow tang,1 damsel, 1 - cleaner shrimp, 1 - coral banded shrimp, 3 - emerald crabs, 2 - porcelin crabs, 6 - peppermint shrimp, 1 - green ricordia, 1 - toadstool, 1 - brittle starfish, 1 - sand sifting star, 100's baby feather dusters,Ass mushrooms, frogspawn, xenia, 1 clam,
6 - Leather coral, Green star polyps,Lime green/orange button polyps,1 huge carpet anenome,various snails/hermit crabs | |
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12-01-2007, 02:39 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Originally Posted by argan  Anyone ever keep them alive for a prolonged period? as a desirable animal?
Im sure there are some species that don't replicate as rapidly or are prettier. Any ideas? | They make a great addition to the grasses as a filtration method in a refugium , _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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12-01-2007, 04:53 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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I've found one and placed it in a separated tiny 2 gal tank... It is really an interesting organism ...  | |
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12-01-2007, 06:08 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lancaster Ohio Age: 36
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Heck you could say I raise them to for food for my copperbanded butterfly. he only eats them and mysis and every feather duster he can get to. | |
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12-01-2007, 07:52 PM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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its all personal preferance, the biodiversity of todays reef tank is overhwhelming. the only problem is in the main tank, there not welcome. spawning could be an issue going back to the main tank. theres pros and cons throughout this industry.
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12-01-2007, 09:14 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: California
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One of my clients has a 80g FOWLR and thought they were free corals when he bought live rock for the system. He loves them, and it spares me the trouble of killing all 500 million of them in that tank. It's a win win | |
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12-01-2007, 10:53 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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We found one recently growing within a large colony of Anthelia...The Anthelia did not seemed to be bothered and we could only see it when the Anthelia was closed...It was rather large, we did away with it....They are quite interesting though and have a ravenous appetite...  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
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2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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12-02-2007, 04:34 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Originally Posted by Tangster They make a great addition to the grasses as a filtration method in a refugium , |
What keeps them from spreading from refugium to main tank? --- Seems like they would in time. 
But I think they can also be pretty also, if not taking over whole tank and not stinging other corals. (But in somebody else's tank  )
Actually saw group like above for sale in LFS once. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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12-02-2007, 05:10 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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As Tangster put it nicely...They make wonderful and highly efficient filter feeders! Housed in a refugium or sump is a great way to diversify your biological filtration. I have them in my refugium and even have them in my 30 gallon hex tank with soft corals.
I have even taken this one step further as an experiment! I recently removed my Remora Skimmer from that tank to see what ramifications would be evident without the skimmer being part of the equation.
To my surprise, I really HAVE NOT witnessed any dramatic detrimental consequences as a result of pulling the skimmer. The skimmer has been removed for over three months now!
I have a Niger Trigger, Clown, Six-line Wrasse and an Azure Damsel fish with two peppermint shrimp and a brittle star and snails. I have aiptasia anemones in the tank with various mushrooms. zoos and leathers with anthelia as well!!!!!
I will keep you posted as to possibly negative, or positive implications! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well>
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